The St. Johns herald., 1887-09-22
AT A BOWERY DIME MUSEUM.

z skctcI, Recently Taken Of a Wonderful
 Curiosity Now ro Be Seen Munchausen
 Out1one.
 A dime museum with foreign name and a list of attractions as long as an Evarts speech, aad located not a great distance from Grand street, has @ curiosity wonderful indeed.
 The barker always calls attention to this ext aordinary specimen of creation when he Is talking against space and elevateI car rumbles. When he gets inside he turns the historical lecture over to an Ichabod-Cranelookin in- dividual who is the discoverer.
 The curiosity is a full-grown buck deer with. fine antlers and skin. The only thing about this deer which is diff ferent from other deer is a peach tree growing out of its back near tho shoulders.
 The lecture about this buck sounds a great deal like an offshot of Munchau- sen's brain.
 MUNCHAUsEN cUTDoNE.
 The barker whirls his cane, points at the deer, and says:
 Ladies and gentlemen, we have hero ther mos exterardinary exposition of natures handiwork ever displayed be- fore an audience in this cou..try or in Europe-indeed. might say ther mos extraordinary curiosity ever seen upon this wonderfullest of spheres in the grand caravansary of moving words which surround US in brilliant galaxies, overhead and around us.
 This, ladies and gentlemen. as you se', is magnificent specimen of tho genus deer, perfect in all it's parts, b t with common peach tree growing from its anatomy.
 |" This here deer. was stuffed by the best numlsmatic known to thu art ot taxidermal prestidigitation.
 " Permit me to introduce you to Col onel Fletcher, the gentleman who pro- c Ired this rara avis, and gave it to Q world of scientific investigation"
 With proud wave of his hand and cane, the barker resigned his plare to Colonel Fletcher. Colonel Flotcherw s caught somewhere down in Georgia, and in an unguarded moment was brought to New York for the special purpose of lecturing on this deer.
 |" Hit war about twenty yeah ago, list artah the wah, Gn' l war -a-walkIn' toad hum from tuhkey huntin'. I'd killed couple O big g0bblah5 and hrn, Lu wal l0c1lu pOOIJ bOOu' vol Jlob on the edge O ther swamp, when seen sumpun moyin', an diskivered fine buck.
 "I he'd big boh muskit. loaded with poTdah, but didn't hev no buckshot, nor bullets, nor nuthin' in ther shape O lead. fooled aroun' in my pockets, an foun' peachstone. l rammed ther stone down ther gun, and fined pint blank at ther buck jist behln' lher 6houldahs. Hit skeered ther deer, but, reckon, didn't hurt him much.
 Five yeahs artah that were a-walk- in nigh ther same spot, an seen sumpun a-movin' in ther switch cane. Hit war kin O queer fuh ennyth. nl1 but vah- mint ter be aroun' thah. an incoarse I knoweI it wah crittah O some kin, mebbe deah. It mought Q bin 0 hoss, though, so I skumlsheI a little.
 "In minnit seen 0 trec a-skakin' in ther cane. an it want 0 swamp tree nuthah. Well, sah--"
 The Colonel elected 0 cupful of to- bacco juice. wiped his chin with his sleeve and continued:
 Grin me ter sassage meat of thah wasn't a big buck a-wall1in' aroun' with a big peach tree on his back. I fined my muskit, an ther buck jist lept into ther aih, an down he an ther tree come 
 " We'll, sah. got bushel an haf D ther bes' peaches evah ct in my life of'n that tree"
 The audience always examines the deer after the lecture.